I. QUANTIFIER USES
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ is used to refer to all the parts of something or all the things in a group that remain or that you have not already mentioned.
It was an experience I will treasure for the ~ of my life...
He was unable to travel to Barcelona with the ~ of the team.
QUANT: QUANT of def-n
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Rest is also a pronoun.
Only 55 per cent of the raw material is canned. The ~ is thrown away.
PRON
2.
You can add and the ~ or all the ~ of it to the end of a statement or list when you want to refer in a vague way to other things that are associated with the ones you have already mentioned. (SPOKEN)
...a man with nice clothes, a Range Rover and the ~...
PHRASE vagueness
II. VERB AND NOUN USES
(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
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1.
If you ~ or if you ~ your body, you do not do anything active for a time.
He’s tired and exhausted, and has been advised to ~ for two weeks...
Try to ~ the injured limb as much as possible.
VERB: V, V n
2.
If you get some ~ or have a ~, you do not do anything active for a time.
‘You’re worn out, Laura,’ he said. ‘Go home and get some ~.’...
N-VAR
3.
If something such as a theory or someone’s success ~s on a particular thing, it depends on that thing. (FORMAL)
Such a view ~s on a number of incorrect assumptions...
= depend
VERB: V on/upon n/wh
4.
If authority, a responsibility, or a decision ~s with you, you have that authority or responsibility, or you are the one who will make that decision. (FORMAL)
The final decision ~ed with the President.
VERB: V with n
5.
If you ~ something somewhere, you put it there so that its weight is supported.
He ~ed his arms on the back of the chair...
= lean
VERB: V n prep
6.
If something is ~ing somewhere, or if you are ~ing it there, it is in a position where its weight is supported.
His head was ~ing on her shoulder...
He had been ~ing his head in his hands, deep in thought.
VERB: V prep/adv, V n prep/adv
7.
If you ~ on or against someone or something, you lean on them so that they support the weight of your body.
He ~ed on his pickaxe for a while.
= lean
VERB: V prep
8.
A ~ is an object that is used to support something, especially your head, arms, or feet.
When you are sitting, keep your elbow on the arm ~.
N-COUNT: usu n N
9.
If your eyes ~ on a particular person or object, you look directly at them, rather than somewhere else. (WRITTEN)
As she spoke, her eyes ~ed on her husband’s face.
VERB: V on/upon n
10.
see also ~ed
11.
When an object that has been moving comes to ~, it finally stops. (FORMAL)
The plane had plowed a path through a patch of fo~ before coming to ~ in a field.
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
If you say that someone can ~ easy, you mean that they don’t need to worry about a particular situation.
How can any woman ~ easy now, knowing her breast cancer may be misdiagnosed?
PHRASE
13.
If someone tells you to give something a ~, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you. (INFORMAL)
Give it a ~, will you? We’re trying to get some sleep...
PHRASE: V inflects
14.
If you say that someone who has died is laid to ~, you mean that they are buried.
His dying wish was to be laid to ~ at the church near his Somerset home.
PHRASE: V inflects
15.
If you lay something such as fears or rumours to ~ or if you put them to ~, you succeed in proving that they are not true.
His speech should lay those fears to ~...
= allay
PHRASE: V inflects
16.
If someone refuses to let a subject ~, they refuse to stop talking about it, especially after they have been talking about it for a long time.
I am not prepared to let this matter ~...
= drop
PHRASE: V inflects
17.
To put someone’s mind at ~ or set their mind at ~ means to tell them something that stops them worrying.
A brain scan last Friday finally set his mind at ~.
= reassure
PHRASE: V and N inflect
18.
~ assured: see assured
to ~ on your laurels: see laurel
to ~ in peace: see peace